Difference between revisions of "System naming"
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
(topical) |
(→Current names: Link babbage.) |
||
| Line 10: | Line 10: | ||
* Turing (Bitfolk VM) | * Turing (Bitfolk VM) | ||
| − | * Babbage (Server in the space) | + | * [[Babbage]] (Server in the space) |
* Lovelace (Workstation - Makerbot) | * Lovelace (Workstation - Makerbot) | ||
Revision as of 12:05, 24 May 2010
The naming scheme of systems in the hackspace is "people involved in computing". However, pronunciation issues rule out names like Dijkstra, Kay and Hoare.
Old names
Names used on systems no longer in use.
- Knuth
Current names
- Turing (Bitfolk VM)
- Babbage (Server in the space)
- Lovelace (Workstation - Makerbot)
Potential names
- Booch
- Boole
- Church
- Cray
- Denning
- Draper
- Flowers
- Hamming
- Hopper
- Kohonen
- Perlman
- Postel?
- Shannon
- Wilson
Potential names on the edge of the scheme
- Armstrong - FM
- Asimov
- Bell
- Beer - Regulatory systems
- Black - Feedback amp
- Brown - Servomechanics
- Edison
- Faraday
- Flood - Prisoner's dilemma, travelling salesman problem
- Gray - Music synth
- Heron - Automata
- Knoll - Electron microscope
- Marconi - Radio telegraph
- Moog
- Norton - Circuit analysis
- Pitts - Neural Networks
- Reeves - PCM
- Simon - AI
- Smith - RF analyusis
- Tesla
Potential names not from the scheme
- Pong/Ping
- Micropig/Spiderpig
- Bubbles, Buttercup & Blossom